Bromley-based Magpie Dance supports people with learning difficulties through dance, and this year embarked on its biggest ever tour with its training company. Operations co-ordinator Jessica Lucy Richards reports

Private investment in the arts has risen by an unexpected 21%, with more than half of the new money coming from individual private donations, according to a new Arts Council report on donations and sponsorship.

UK theatre is “hideously white”, according to a report published today for the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, with BAME performers the victims of unconscious biase and habitually overlooked for roles in favour of white actors.

The Design Museum has opened in Kensington in the former Commonwealth Institute, in a minimalist “retuning” of the building that gives three times the space of the museum’s former home. Simon Tait reports

The West End night club Fabric, closed by Islington Council after the drugs-related deaths of two teenagers there, is to reopen after the intervention of Amy Lamé, London’s new “Night Czar”, according to the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.

Private investment in the arts has risen by an unexpected 21%, with more than half of the new money coming from individual private donations, according to a new Arts Council report on donations and sponsorship.